An investor points at stock prices on a screen at a brokerage in Ho Chi Minh City. Photo by VnExpress/An Khuong
Vietnam’s benchmark VN-Index rose 2.21% to 1,528.19 points Monday in its best session in nearly four months.
The index closed 32.98 points higher after dropping 7.31 points in the previous session.
Trading on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange increased by around 9.2% to VND42.6 trillion (US$1.63 billion).
Almost all tickers in the VN-30 basket, comprising the 30 largest capped stocks, closed higher.
Four of them hit their ceiling prices, namely VJC of budget airline Vietjet, VIC of private conglomerate Vingroup, SHB of Saigon Hanoi Commercial Bank and TPB of private TPBank.
FPT of tech giant FPT Corporation was the only blue chip that fell, closing 0.4% lower.
Foreign investors were net seller to the tune of VND10.26 trillion, mainly selling VIC and SSI of brokerage SSI Securities Corporation.
The HNX-Index for stocks on the Hanoi Stock Exchange, home to mid and small caps, rose 1.29%, while the UPCoM-Index for the Unlisted Public Companies Market went up 0.66%.
